January 18, 2020

Meanwhile, in other Virginia gun news...

Dana Mathewson

Virginia city official brings AR-15-style rifle to council meeting â€“ triggering some colleagues

A city official in Virginia showed support for the Second Amendment earlier this week by bringing an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle to a city council meeting.

The move by Portsmouth Councilman Nathan Clark came as the council was to consider making the city a "Second Amendment Constitutional Cityâ€ â€“ placing it in symbolic opposition to gun-control efforts underway in the newly Democrat-controlled state Assembly.

The proposal, debated before a capacity audience in the council chambers, passed 4-3, according to the Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk.

Clarkâ€™s gesture also came as the state prepares for a controversial gun-rights rally scheduled for Monday in Richmond, the state capital.

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But he apparently angered at least two members of the council in Portsmouth, an Atlantic coast city about 97 miles from Richmond.

The council critics said Clark should have told them in advance that he planned to bring the weapon â€“ and one of them asked Clark to apologize for not doing so.

"It was a disgrace, disheartening and an embarrassment,â€ Vice Mayor Lisa Lucas-Burke wrote to the council Thursday, according to the newspaper. "Most of us were blindsided by the display.â€ Lucas-Burke was among three council members who voted against the "Constitutional Cityâ€ designation. The others were Councilman Shannon Glover and Mayor John Rowe. Glover had complained of being blindsided by Clark's gesture, the report said.
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Clark himself did not respond to the newspaperâ€™s request for a comment. But the paper reported that Clark had issued a press release announcing his plan to bring the weapon to the meeting. [Emphasis added]

So those "blindsided by the display"(a.k.a. triggered) hadn't bothered to read the paper beforehand. Isn't it usually that way with Leftist critics?

I've left out lots of "the good stuff," hoping you'll go here https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-city-official-brings-ar-15-style-rifle-to-council-meeting-triggering-some-colleagues to read the entire article.

I like the idea of people being "triggered" by guns, don't you?

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 12:13 PM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 What a bunch of snowflakes! And notice it was two women and the Mayor who were "frightened" by the big, bad gun! And one had a hyphenated name - a classic sign of a feminist.

Actually what they are mad about is that it worked. Showing this type of weapon, and showing how it is nothing but a tool, destroyed their demonization of it.

I like it; now they can have a sergeant-at-arms who is actually AT ARMS!

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at January 19, 2020 09:10 AM (oYU8a)

2 This whole "trigger" thing is amazing. It says that the "triggered" person has so little command of his own mind that his mind can be controlled by a passing stranger with whom he does not even interact. The mere presence of a passing stranger can cause him to feel, think and behave in a manner that he does not want to feel, think or behave.

It seems to me that a rational being who was so helpless as to fall prey to such problems would focus less on controlling the actions of others, and would try to find a way to gain the ability to command his own damned mind - to develop the mental and emotional strength to make it impossible for others to "trigger" him.

Posted by: Bill H at January 19, 2020 09:32 AM (vMiSr)

3 You said it, Bill! Children are "triggered"; adults control themselves.

We've become a society of babies.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at January 19, 2020 12:15 PM (oYU8a)

4 Bill, I think you should write an article about this. Really!

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at January 19, 2020 11:18 PM (SAlEC)

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